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    {
      "url":"https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/11/firefox-4-html5-forms/",
      "title":"Mozilla Hacks article"
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      "url":"http://afarkas.github.com/webshim/demos/",
      "title":"HTML5 Library including datalist support"
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      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/datalist",
      "title":"MDN Web Docs - datalist"
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      "url":"https://www.webplatform.org/docs/html/elements/datalist",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
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    {
      "url":"http://demo.agektmr.com/datalist/",
      "title":"Eiji Kitamura's options demos & tests"
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    {
      "url":"https://github.com/thgreasi/datalist-polyfill",
      "title":"Minimal Datalist polyfill w/tutorial"
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    {
      "url":"https://github.com/mfranzke/datalist-polyfill",
      "title":"Minimal and library dependency-free vanilla JavaScript polyfill"
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      "description":"In UIWebView Apps in iOS 12.2, using the datalist element may cause the input type to become incapable of being able to type in it despite not supporting it."
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  "notes":"While most commonly used on text fields, datalists can also be used on other input types. IE11 supports the element on `range` fields. Chrome and Opera also support datalists to suggest given values on `range`, `color` and date/time fields. ",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Partial support refers to [a bug](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=773041) where long lists of items are unscrollable resulting in unselectable options.",
    "2":"Partial support in IE refers to [significantly buggy behavior](https://web.archive.org/web/20170121011936/http://playground.onereason.eu/2013/04/ie10s-lousy-support-for-datalists/) (IE11+ does send the input and change events upon selection). ",
    "3":"Partial support refers to no support for datalists on non-text fields (e.g. number, [range](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841942), [color](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960984)).",
    "4":"Partial support in Edge refers [to disappearing option elements on focusing the input element via tab](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/20066595/).",
    "5":"Supported through WKWebView and Safari but not through UIWebView",
    "6":"In Firefox, autocomplete must be set to off to make dynamic datalist work due to [a bug](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474137)"
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  "keywords":"list attribute,input",
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